Letter to 92 Deputies representing the 13 Mekong Delta provinces in the National Assembly: urgent public consultation needed on PetroVietnam’s involvement in the Luang Prabang Dam in Laos due to potential impacts on the delta’s 20 million inhabitants.
Category: Mekong
Another dam on the Mekong
In the face of environmental destruction and threats to livelihoods, a new dam project is being pushed through in Laos.
Dams threaten Asia’s most successful river cruise destination
“Dams have stolen our water. We don’t know how long the (Mekong) river has got.”
Thailand to File Complaint over China’s Dams in Mekong River Communities
Thailand’s water-resources chief responds to local farmers complained that dams in China were choking the waterway on which millions depend for their livelihoods.
Moving To The System Scale Can Improve Hydropower
The Mekong represents a key test case as it is home to perhaps the highest profile conflicts over hydropower development today.
Unsustainable sand mining is threatening lives along Mekong River in Cambodia
New study clearly illustrates that excessive sand mining is responsible for increased rates of bank erosion that local communities have been reporting in recent years.
The 97km that frustrate China’s mastery of the Mekong
These rocks and rapids in Thai waters along the Mekong stand between Beijing and dominance over the Lower stretch of the river.
‘The colour is blue’: Strange changes as dams and climate change make their mark
Now man holds reign. And there is something wrong with the Mekong. The ‘Mother of Water’ as this great river is known throughout the regions it passes, is sick.
Mekong communities struggle as China tests dam equipment Water levels have fluctuated sharply with testing, but some are encouraged that China gave warning of its plan.
Water levels have fluctuated sharply with testing, but some are encouraged that China gave warning of its plan.
Vast river diversion plan afoot in western China
These schemes would feed China’s north not just from the Yangtze but from transnational rivers, including the Yarlung Tsangpo, the Nu and the Lancang/Mekong.